Tag: oem

Reading about the new Elementary OS updates (the distro that I use) I saw the new “About” page which now have better looking than before.

But, that default mac computer icon does not fit my computer and as a thinkpad user I am would be proud if the Elementary OS detects my machine’s vendor name… but it’s not what happened. 😦

Following my wishes to have some custom information on that page, I made some research on the elementary code, on github and discovered that the “about” page can load information from an specific file on the computer, so I have try it and that what it looks like now:

Here is how to do it:

Open as an Administrator the path /etc

Create a file called oem.conf

Add the following content on the created file and set your own information and icon: